Lessons from Aikido for Conflict Transformation - A Conversation with Judy Ringer

A Leadership Beyond

This week we have an insightful conversation with Judy Ringer, author of Turn Enemies Into Allies.

If you know any martial art, you already recognize how the principles can be applied to resolving conflict. Aikido is a martial art with a core principle of non-harm. “Render the attack harmless without harming the opponent.” Our conversation with Judy gets right to the center of how this practice can be applied.

Judy Ringer was in Real Estate, a business that puts you in the center of conflicting, emotionalized counterparts. Her dominant tendency was to accommodate, to please the people. She became interested in conflict dynamics and took a class offered by Thomas Crum, then drawn to pursuing both Aikido and conflict transformation.

Judy uses the principles and movements of Aikido as a metaphor for every day emotional conflict. She continues to practice and teach Aikido as well as her own training company.

Judy gives us tips on centering, awareness, cooperation, practicing our non-dominant conflict style, listening, letting go of the need to be right, difference between conflict management and conflict transformation, and much more!

Wherever you are in your power and presence journey, begin. Begin again... and again. That is why we call it practice.

We do not have to do it alone! In this episode, Judy Ringer brings years of experience to guide us.

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